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“I have always wanted a sister, and I’m so glad I finally have you!” Chiara shouted, throwing her arms around me in a tight hug.I hugged her back without hesitation. In the past few days, I had genuinely grown to love my sister-in-law. She was a bright spark in this suffocating place, and we’d spent nearly every free moment together—laughing, talking.Now we were sprawled across her massive bed, the remnants of our puzzle game scattered around us. I had beaten her three times in a row, and her fluffy white dog was snoring softly at the foot of the bed, completely unbothered by our chaos.“I’m glad I have you too” I said, staring up at her ceiling. “I can’t even imagine how suffocating this place would be without you.”“I know, right?” Chiara turned her head toward me, her expression softening. “I know my brother can be a total dickhead sometimes, but he’s a good person deep down. He would never hurt the people he loves.”Except I’m not one of those people he loves, I thought, but I k
I took a deep breath, steadied my stance, and pointed the gun at the target board. The bullet tore through the air and penetrated the board, but it didn’t hit the bull’s eye, just grazed the edge. I groaned in frustration, lowering the weapon.My grip tightened on the gun as I stared at the cluster of holes. None of them were dead center. The latest one had come so close.It had been three weeks since that night in the warehouse. For days afterward, I searched inside myself for guilt over what happened to Mr. Sterling. I waited for the remorse to hit me, for the horror to settle in. But it never came. No matter how hard I tried to deny it, there was a darkness inside me that Lucien was awakening and it terrified me as much as it excited me.Lucien has fully pulled me into his world. Being part of it meant training. Brutal, relentless training in both fighting and shooting. I’d gotten frighteningly good at hand-to-hand combat, and my aim was improving fast. Lucien had also made sure m
Scarlet POVThe moment we got into the car, Lucien pulled me onto his lap and claimed my lips in a kiss. There was nothing soft about it—it was savage, raw, and full of lust. He bit my bottom lip, and when I gasped, he used the opportunity to invade my mouth. God, I kissed him back just as fiercely. He tasted like sin and the champagne he’d been drinking all night, and I was getting drunk on him.I shouldn’t be kissing him. I should be putting as much distance between us as possible. I should remember what he did and everything I heard tonight and stay the hell away from this man. But I couldn’t pull away even if my life depended on it. I sucked on his tongue, drawing a deep groan from him. He hauled me closer, devouring me with a hunger I had never felt from any man before, and I matched him with the same desperate intensity. I ground against his hard cock, moaning as my clit finally got the friction it craved. I kept rolling my hips, chasing a high that felt so close yet so frustrati
“Who is she?”Vittorio Moretti’s voice broke through the low hum of the music. The Capo dei Capi stood shoulder-to-shoulder with me at the edge of the grand ballroom, but I barely heard him.I took a slow, deliberate sip of my drink, my eyes entirely locked on her across the crowded room. She was wearing a midnight-blue silk gown that clung to every single curve of her body like a second skin, open at the back and cut dangerously low. The woman had refused to listen to a single word I said about dressing modestly. In fact, I was starting to think she wore that killing dress on purpose just to piss me off.It was working. My chest burned with a dark, suffocating rage. I felt like tearing the throat out of every single man in this room just for letting their eyes graze her skin.Scarlet stood in the center of the crowd like she already belonged here, completely unbothered. You would never guess she had been forced into this marriage. You would never guess she had only found out an hou
I sat silently in the back of the sleek, midnight-black Rolls-Royce Phantom, If anyone had told me a week ago that I would be enjoying the absolute luxury of being chauffeured through the city, I would have laughed in their face. In a way, I was finally living the life I had always dreamed of. I didn't have to wake up sweating about eviction notices, food prices, or my father's suffocating debts.My father. My chest tightened with a sudden, painful ache. I had no idea how he was faring or if he was even safe. I missed him so much, but I couldn't risk contacting him yet.This wasn't how I wanted to earn my peace. I had never dreamed of being forced into a marriage with a man I hardly knew. The only thing I really knew about Lucien Romano was his name. I didn't even know what the man actually did for a living, though I knew he was dangerous. Exactly the kind of man I had spent years avoiding at Club Midnight Sins. The wealthy, powerful men who patronized that VIP lounge were monsters
The second the bedroom door closed behind us, the cool facade Lucien had maintained downstairs vanished completely. He spun me around, pinning me flat against the wood, and slammed his mouth down on mine.It wasn't gentle. It was an absolute siege. Lucien kissed me like a man starving, his lips crushing against mine with a fierce, desperate hunger that made my head spin. His tongue tangled with mine, dominant and demanding, taking everything he wanted without asking.A hot, treacherous spike of adrenaline shot through my veins. My hands, which had risen to push his heavy chest away, clutched at the fabric of his shirt instead. I hated him. But my body was an absolute traitor, responding to the raw, suffocating heat of his mouth with a wild fervor of its own.I bit his lower lip, tasting a faint hint of copper, and he groaned darkly into my mouth, pulling me so tight against his hardened frame.When he finally tore his mouth away, we were both panting, the air between us thick and heav
Scarlet POVThe car pulled through massive iron gates that opened like the jaws of a beast. My jaw actually dropped as Lucien’s estate came into view.It wasn’t just a house, It was a fortress. The mansion sprawled across perfectly manicured grounds, all sharp modern lines mixed with old-world elega
A harsh, breathless laugh burst from my throat before I could stop it. I waited for him to chuckle darkly and tell me how stupid I was. But as the seconds ticked by, the silence in the room grew heavy. Lucien didn’t laugh. He didn't even blink. He just kept his intense, icy blue gaze locked onto mi
Lucien POVThe massive monitor on my office wall cast a cold, obsidian-blue glow across the room. I leaned back in my leather chair, a single finger lazily tapping the armrest as the footage looped for the seventh time.There she was again.The little stripper who had been writhing under me a week
“I’m so tired,” Juliette groaned as she walked into the dressing room, looking like pure sin wrapped in expensive perfume. She was a stunning half-Asian beauty with smooth, golden-tan skin, high cheekbones, and those striking almond-shaped eyes that could shift from innocent to deadly in a heartbea







